What are the responsibilities and job description for the Population Health Pharmacist - Full Time / Days - Jefferson Center - Center City position at Jefferson Health?
Job Details
Under the supervision of the Ambulatory Pharmacist Program Medical
Director provides Population Health Ambulatory Pharmacy focused care services to Jefferson Health Providers and patients. Will collaborate with central and local level population health teams to develop and implement strategies that support the high value, high quality, patient centered medical care in Jefferson Health Primary Care and Specialists Practices. Patients serviced range in age from 0
to 100 .
Job Description
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Thomas Jefferson University
Primary Location Address
1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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Under the supervision of the Ambulatory Pharmacist Program Medical
Director provides Population Health Ambulatory Pharmacy focused care services to Jefferson Health Providers and patients. Will collaborate with central and local level population health teams to develop and implement strategies that support the high value, high quality, patient centered medical care in Jefferson Health Primary Care and Specialists Practices. Patients serviced range in age from 0
to 100 .
Job Description
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
- Develops and implements pharmacy initiatives directed at improving prescribing patterns of Jefferson ambulatory providers that promote high value, high quality, safe and cost-efficient prescribing. This may include identification of prescribing patterns that may lead to improper drug selection, sub-therapeutic dosage, overdose, patient failure to receive medication, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and medication without indication and unnecessary prescribing of high-cost medications.
- Develops and implements patient education initiatives related to the individual's disease state, including predictable actions, side effects, reasons for proper compliance, and any special instruction.
- Works with Population Health teams and providers to improve performance on value-based payer contracts.
- Provides education to providers and staff via presentations, newsletters, formal utilization reviews, and one-on-one interactions.
- Analytic review of drug utilization data provided by insurers and analytic team and assure ongoing performance improvement of the pharmaceutical care services
- provided
- Works with Ambulatory Pharmacist Program Medical Director and DVACO Director of Population Health Pharmacy Strategy help to determine and implement strategic pharmacy plans.
- Conducts patient medication history reviews on high-risk patients and offer alternative therapeutic suggestions or changes to regimen.
- For high-risk patients, given a diagnosis, synthesize a treatment plan, which may include drug therapy and lifestyle modifications, and transition within the continuum of care settings.
- Comprehensive knowledge of current pharmacological/biopharmaceutical principles, medical terminology, pathologies, disease states, and related information for a medical management plan.
- Knowledge of basic statistics and of federal and State laws & regulations regarding the provision of pharmaceutical services.
- Ability to operate the pharmacy computer system(s) as appropriate and to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Appropriate documentation of interventions in the EMR.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- PharmD from an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy required.
- Successful completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency and/or PGY2 residency in ambulatory care preferred, or 1 years of patient care delivery experience required (3 years preferred).
- Ambulatory clinical residency preferred.
- Current PA Registered Pharmacist License: Basic Life Support (BLS) card preferred. NPI# required within one month of hire.
- Board Certification in Ambulatory Care is required within 18 months of employment.
- Experience in ambulatory practice or ambulatory network preferred.
- Experience with analyzing and reviewing pharmacy reports.
- 1 years of patient care delivery experience required if a clinical pharmacy residency was not successfully completed, 3 years preferred.
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Thomas Jefferson University
Primary Location Address
1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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